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IT SEEMS THEREis more to wearing high-heeled shoes than crushed toes and bunions.

They really do make a difference to how the wearer is treated. Tall women appear more intelligent, assertive, independent and ambitious, a study into ‘heightism’ found.

Smaller women with hour-glass figures are seen as nurturing and more likely to make better mothers.

Pictures of digitally lengthened and shortened women were shown to 100 volunteers. Assumptions about the women’s personalities were recorded by researchers at University College London. But the heightest attitudes cannot be explained.

‘In the past, being tall has been associated with leadership and social class,’ a researcher said.

But clinical psychologist Dr Ros Taylor added: ‘It’s not being tall that gives you power. If you don’t have it there are other compensations.’